Live Recorded
OVERVIEW
This 2-day workshop is designed by Dr. Leslie Greenberg and Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone, leaders in the field of psychology. It is aimed at mental health professionals from various training backgrounds who wish to acquire specialized skills in processing emotions productively in psychotherapy. Video-recordings of therapy sessions will be used to illustrate client processes and interventions. For those who are not able to attend the broadcast, a recording of the workshop will be available for a period of time.
OBJECTIVES
This workshop will teach fundamental principles and practical skills on how to assess, process, and transform emotions productively and how to transform unhelpful emotional schemes that underlie many mental health conditions. Through didactic and experiential learning, participants will learn how to:
- Assess a client’s unique emotional processing style and emotional processing difficulties
- Facilitate emotional awareness, symbolize emotions, and deepen emotional experience using different interventions  such as focusing, enactments and evocation
- Work with obstacles to productive emotional processing
- Guide a step-by-step emotion sequence to transform unproductive emotional states into productive emotional processes
- Promote memory reconsolidation and emotional change by meaning-making, narrative elaboration, and co-creating new narratives to foster meaningful changes
FEES AND REGISTRATION
The recordings are available for purchase at a rate of $260 (+ applicable taxes) for professionals and $210 (+ applicable taxes) for students.
For students, training@cpeh.ca to gain access to the Student Rate
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Dr. Leslie Greenberg (Ph.D., C.Psych.) is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He created and co-developed Emotion-Focused Therapy for individual and couples. He received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research, the SPR Distinguished Research Career award, the Carl Rogers award of the APA Society for Humanistic Psychology, the Canadian Council of Professional Psychology Program Award for Excellence in Professional Training, and the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for distinguished contributions to Psychology as a profession.
Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone (Ph.D., C.Psych.) is full professor at University of Windsor, an honorary research professor at University of Lausanne and a returning faculty member at York University’s EFT institute. His research group, the Emotion Change Lab, has greatly contributed to the literature on psychotherapy process and outcomes, with a focus on emotional processing. He has received several career awards (2009, 2014) from international societies, APA’s distinguished publication award (2010), and Germany’s Hamburger Prize in Personality Disorders Research (2016). He has given over 35 clinical workshops around the world and received an award (2016) for innovation in teaching psychotherapy skills.
